"couple of weeks old"  ???

Embryonic day 15 is considered by some to be the point at which pain
perception begins and at which some IACUCs want to review protocols.

Charlie

At 11:57 AM 10/29/2008, you wrote:
>Our institution does not have an Institutional Animal Care and Use
>Committee, because we have no animals.  We have a new professor who
>does research on chick embryos that are only a couple of weeks
>old.  She obtains the embryos through the mail; there are no laying
>hens here.  A proposal is planned to NIH, and I began developing an
>IACUC so that we would be able to apply, but now I see that some
>schools take the approach that early embryo research does not need
>IACUC approval because the embryos cannot feel pain.  Can anyone
>provide any advice regarding whether they believe an IACUC is
>necessary for early embryo research, especially when there is no
>other animal research on campus?
>
>Is an application to NIH likely to be disqualified in this case,
>when there is no IACUC?  I will be visiting NIH next week as part of
>the NCURA conference and will ask there as well, but I'd like to
>hear what my RESADML colleagues have to say first.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Landy
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